Breeching snap-hook.



No. 891,408.. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

F. W. COVERT.

BRBEOHING SNAP HOOK. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED W. COVERT, OF WATERVLIET, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO COVERTMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WATERVLIET, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEWYORK.

BREEGHING SNAP-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 6, 1907.

Patented June 23, 1908.

Serial No. 400,934.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED W. COVERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Watervliet, in the county of Albany and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breeching Snap-I-Iooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to an improvement in breeching snap hooks and itis embodied in the construction and arrangement of parts presently to bedescribed and defined in the claims.

Heretofore in constructing devices of this type, it has been customaryto form on the side of the clip part, at the end of the hook,

a frame or loop to which the supporting strap is connected. This frameor loop has been placed centrally between the side edges of one of thearms of the clip part, in which it has been usual to form the openingfor the reception ofone end of the screw bolt or pintle, to which thedraw strap is applied. The construction resulted in the application ofthe pintle or screw bolt first through the opening in the lower arm ofthe clip or from the side opposite the said frame and, inasmuch as saidpintles were usually screw threaded on one end, it is found necessary toinsert the screw upward through a tapped hole formed in the upper arm ofthe clip immediately below the cross-bar of the frame. The result ofsuch a construction was that the screw being head down frequently becameloose and would fall out, and further it was found difficult to roperlytap the hole in the upper arm of the c ip masmuch as the tap wasrequired to be passed through a pre viously formed opening in theopposite arm of the clip and then carried upward and forced through thealined opening below the said frame. This often resulted in theprevention of the complete tapping of the opening by the end of the tapcoming in contact with the frame, it also required the removal of a hookupon each tap being completed. It was also found, in the priorconstructions, that the side of the hook or frame was held in a positionto engage either 'the adjacent part of the harness, vehicle or theanimal.

My present invention relates to an improvement on the above designedtype of hook and it consists conveniently and primarily in offsettingthe said frame that is to say locating the frame or loop at one side asdistinguished from centrally so that the screw or pintle for supportingthe draw strap connection with the hook, can be placed with the head upand the tapping of the thread being effected without interference on thepart of the frame or loop and also enables the manufacturers to placethe screw or pintle through branches of the clip and to head or rivetover the ends thereof; which was prac tically impossible heretofore onaccount of the frame or loop being in the way. The offsetting of theframe also enables me to form the opening or hole in the frame carryingarm by a punch and thereby avoid the the use of mold cores to form theopening in casting the frame, as has been necessary heretofore.

Afurther object is to provide a hook with the frame offset so that thestrap will, in efiect, form a wearing surface or guide.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown a form of snap hook embodyingthe invention, but it is to be understood that various changes can bemade without departing from the principle and nature thereof.

Figure 1 is an elevation showing parts in section, Fig. 2 is an edgeview, Fig. 3 is an elevation of a D, and Fig. 4 is a top plan of thesame.

A designates the frame of the clip or shackle which is of D-shape havingformed in the lower arm or branch thereof a screw threaded o ening, andin its upper branch an alining cy indrical opening, these openings beingconveniently adjacent the outer ends of the branches. Through theopenings is passed a screw threaded pintle B having an anti-frictionsleeve C thereon. On the u per branch of the clip is formed a frame oroop E, the same being cast as a part of the clip and extends from theouter end of the upper branch to a oint near the inner end thereof. Thisframe is offset, the outer end being secured to an extension (I of theup er arm of the part A, While the inner en of the frame is connectedwith the base of the u per branch of the part A but'to one side 0 thecenter thereof, as shown in Fig. 2. By offsetting this frame art E, thatis by locating the same at one si e, the screw B can be inserted andremoved from above and in tapping or forming the screw thread it can bedone without the tool engaging or being interfered with by the frame.offsetting the frame also permits the formation of the opening or holein the frame carrying arm with a punch, obviating the necessity of theuse of cores in casting, which has heretofore been thoughtindispensable, it also permits heading up or riveting one or both endsof the pintle or screw after the sleeve has been placed thereon. It willalso be noted that, when the strap is to pass through ,the frame, itwill, in effect, form a cushion for adjacent parts as it will projectbeyond the side of the frame.

In the first two figures, I have shown a snap hook of well known formattached to the clip part, while in Figs. 3 and 4 it is shown omitted,the essential feature of the invention being the offsetting of the loopor frame.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a clip member comprising two connectedoppositely arranged arms having alined openings therein, of a loop onone of the arms positioned at the side of the longitudinal centerthereof and beyond the plane of the opening in the arm, and a pintlesecured in the opening in the arms and extending across the clip.

2. The combination with a snap hook, of a D-shaped clip attached to theend thereof, a removable plntle secured in the outer ends of thebranches of the clip, and a loop or frame formed on one of the branchesof the clip and offset laterally beyond the plane of the pintle, saidpintle being positioned intermediate the ends of said loop frame.

3. The combination with a branched clip having alined openings in thebranches adjacent the ends thereof, and rovided with a lateral offsetportion extending from the end of the upper branch, of a loop frame onthe upper branch, said loop frame having its ends connected respectivelyto the body-of the branch and to the offset portion extending laterallyfrom the end thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRED W. COVERT.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. Hrns'r, GEORGE H. LEE.

